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Hodge, indeed, is a great writer. I recall him being flattered when I said Prototype was the most depressing book I'd ever read! Deathgrip was great, too, and my fave is probably The Darker Saints. As I recall his first Pinnacle book came out a month before Ghouls; Dark Advent, which was a blast too. Check out his novella "As above, so below." Outstanding.

Right now I'm reading the S.T. Joshi annotated collection od HPL containing Rats in the Walls, Dunwich Horror, Colour of of Space, and Mountains of Madness. It's so well written and fascinating (the annotations, I mean) that twice I've missed my stop when reading it on the bus!

Today I got my hc copy of In Laymon's Terms, a HUGE book full of great pictures and a ton of stories and tributes. I'll be reading this next.

I passed on a copy of Prototype at Half Price Books not too long ago. Had the thing in my hands, too. I was put off because I'd started a Hodge (I think it was called Oasis) and had to quit because it made me want to chew off my own leg. I'm gonna try and hunt another copy now per Ed endorsement

Indeed,Light at the End was a great book (I'll be seeing Skipp at Killer Con soon, cool guy); also check out The Scream, and The Bridge. Great stuff. I think Skipp told me once that his favorite of his collab books is Animals.

I got a huge pile of good stuff to pick through, including every Delirium publication this year (hee hee hee). Looks like Robert Devereaux's BABY'S FIRST BOOK OF SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP SHIT is headed out to the front porch with me. And a cold can of Diet Pepsi. Oh yeah! This is the life!

I have just finished up Haunter of the Threshold and Going Monstering. Really great, and very disturbing books. I am skipping around between Mangled Meat, Brain Cheese Buffet, and Carnal surgery right now. I'm currently waiting for my copy of Witch Water, and just this morning I ordered the limited edition of The Chosen. I really wanted to get the 5 pack off Camelot books but can't afford the 325 dollars at the moment.

~Tony Beals

_________________"What?Is man merely a mistake of God's?Or is God merely a mistake of man's?"-Frederick Nietzsche

I've finished The Cyesolagniac and The Decortication Technician. I loved both of them, especially the twists at the end. I pretty much figured out the twist ending of the decortication technician but was blown away by the cyesolagniac's. I'm starting to read The Burred Room, and also picking up where I left off a year ago with The Siren by John Everson. I have some Keene and Laymon laying around, so in between classes, and work I have plenty of reading.

~Tony Beals

_________________"What?Is man merely a mistake of God's?Or is God merely a mistake of man's?"-Frederick Nietzsche

Reading through this thread has reminded me of a few books I need to rip off the shelf and read again. Just finished a huge run of Lee and Wrath books, Innswich Horror, Trolley No 1852, Mangled Meat, Coven, Bighead for at least the 10th time!, Population Zero, His Pain, Hero, Yaccub's Curse and just sinking my teeth in to The Haunter of the Threshold after refreshing on the Lovecraft story. I have to say thanks first to Lee for writing all these, I have to say it, fucking awesome books!! and Deadite for dishing them out so damn cheap!

Reading The Chosen right now while i'm anxiously awaiting my copy of Witch Water. I got the email saying it's shipped so i'm pretty excited. Once I finish these two I might move on to some Keene or maybe some more of Lee's older stuff. Might have to finish Rollo's Valley of the Scarecrow.

~Tony Beals

_________________"What?Is man merely a mistake of God's?Or is God merely a mistake of man's?"-Frederick Nietzsche

I'm reading that too!!!! It's fan-fucking-tastic. I'm also reading the digital edition of McBrides Burial Ground, but I didn't want to take my iPad to the playground on this beautiful day. I took Like Porno for Psychos instead and am very thankful that I had an old magazine in the car to cover it up with! I generally don't fit in too well with the other parents...I can only imagine the looks I would have gotten if they'd seen what I was reading

I'm ashamed that I've only read one short by Shirley, think I'm going to have to remedy that. Plus Wrath is easily my second favorite author ever. Need that one, and Pure Hate and Sacrifice that have just recently been released. This thread is a great resource for overlooked goodies.

Holy shit is right! That's some fine stuff. I recently read a chapbook by Sinister Grin Press that has new material by Ray Garton (GREAT guy,by the way!), Bentley Little, and one of my all time faves Ramsey Campbell. All three pieces were dynamite. Then I read Weston Ochse's story by Burning Effigy PRess called Redemption Roadshow. All I can say is WOW! Check em out if you can.

I've been reading a lot of Hideyuki Kikuchi's Japanese horror novels, more and more of which are getting translated: DEMON CITY SHINJUKU and its sequel DEMON PALACE BABYLON as well as the first three volumes of his YASHAKIDEN: THE DEMON PRINCESS series. Not a lot of hardcore action in those with the exception of some vampire-on-vampire sex in YASHAKIDEN that made surprising, graphic use of a cattle prod!

Deciding that I needed some variety I went back to Clark Ashton Smith via:

Lots of good stuff in this collection of short stories Smith published in Weird Tales in the 1930ies. My favorite so far is probably THE PLUTONIAN DRUG. Despite the ending being quite predictable, I found the concept of people getting high off dried lichen from other planets very interesting and the effects of the titular drug were impressively described.

Are any of the stories in the Shirley collection reprints from Really Really Weird Stories or Black Butterflies? I wasn't aware of this one. Shirley's a magnificent writer (and funny as hell in person!).

If the cover art looks vaguely familiar, then that's because the same artist (Alan M. Clarke) had paintings used by Deadite Press for Ed's BRAIN CHEESE BUFFET and CARNAL SURGERY collections, among others.

Konnie: indeed, The Chosen cover stinks but I hope you like the book. As I recall there's sex a'plenty in it. Wetbones: yes, Clark's artwork rocks in a big way. It occurs tome now that I haven't seen him in years. Very cool guy.